A quote from Paul Mcmullan in The People, 16 September 2007

Picturesque Cherbourg in Normandy has been overrun by thugs […] Police chiefs and the ferry firms claim they are powerless to cope with hordes of aggressive young men from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan who...
Break into camper vans armed with knives to force their way on board ferries.
Sneak into the backs of British caravans and car boots.
Co-ordinate raids on lorries by mobile phone.
Throw rocks and pull knives on anyone near their tented city.

[...] Cherbourg police chief Brigadier Anne-Sophie Renan admitted to The People: “The Iraqi asylum seekers are extremely aggressive. [...]” Many of the asylum seekers claim to be escaping the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan but their taste for violence would make them handy recruits for the Taliban. [...] The tented camps are less than 50 miles from beaches where British troops fought their way ashore on D-Day in the Second World War.

When our investigator asked one man why he needed to go to Britain when he was already on safe European soil he replied: “I have been turned down in France. The English are soft and stupid and give me a flat, money and new clothes and food.” Moments after the remark that disgraced the sacrifices of British troops, our man had to flee a fresh bombardment of rocks.